Brazil halts BYD site over worker ‘slavery’-like conditions, Bloomberg says

BYD (BYDDF) has cut ties with a construction firm Jinjiang Construction Brazil after Brazilian authorities stopped construction of a new electric-vehicle plant after workers were found working and living in “slavery”-like conditions, Danny Lee of Bloomberg reports. According to a statement by Brazil’s Labor Prosecutor’s Officer, authorities rescued 163 Chinese workers building a new EV factory for BYD in Bahia and ordered a halt to construction.